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Technical Details
| Item Weight | 807 g |
| Product Dimensions | 30.5 x 5.1 x 30.5 cm |
| Manufacturer recommended age: | 1 month and up |
| Item model number | SOPZ007 |
| Main Language(s) | English |
| Number of Game Players | 5 |
| Batteries Required? | No |
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| ASIN | B001D7X5O2 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 34,297 in Toys & Games (See top 100) |
| Shipping Weight | 1.4 Kg |
| Delivery Destinations: | Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered. |
| Date First Available | 19 Nov 2008 |
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Manufacturer's Description
Your aim is simple; to escape Rome and slavery, and make your way back to your home country. To achieve this, you will need to gather tools and weapons to aid your escape, make friends and allies, bribe guards, and last, but not least, avoid the Soldiers chasing you. Each player takes on the role of Gladiator - formerly a slave who was forced to fight in the Colosseum to entertain bloodthirsty Romans. Additionally the players move Soldiers who chase the other Gladiators. All the gore and more!
Product Description
A Barbaric board game of Rotten Romans. Your aim is simple to escape Rome and slavery, and make your way back to your home country. You need to gather tools and weapons to aid your escape and avoid the soldiers chasing you.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Durability:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
At it's basic level - this is a game where you move your pieces from one part of the board to another - and the first to reach the destination wins. You start in the Colosseum, with 2 gladiators. The idea is that your gladiators escape from the colosseum, past the strategically placed, and moving, soldiers, and to one of the 6 country destinations. You roll dice to move both gladiators (white dice) and soldiers (black dice) in each turn, and try to pick up resources, such as weapons, armour, disguise, in order to make your escape, or fight. There are also two packs of cards, from which you take the top card when you roll an F/1 (Fate card) or R/1 (Resource card).
The Horrible Histories idea can be found in the fate and resource cards, when Nero can summarily kill a gladiator, you can be arrested, your food stolen, your opponent has to go into the arena to fight a tiger, or you can get help to fight.
The game is complicated. It's recommended at 8+, but I would suggest that the 8 to 9 year olds should, ideally, be familiar with board games, and understand a little bit about the Romans - understanding what a gladiator is, for example. That said, once you get into it, it is a good game. It takes a couple of go's to get the hang of the game. Our first version featured a whole different game play which my kids simply made up to fit the board! It was quite a fun version though - and the board does lend itself to making up your own games, if you enjoy doing that.
The game is educational. The art work on the Board game is lovely - and great for those with an eye for finding the details. As a whole, the game does give an impression of some aspects of life for a gladiator, when your fate is entirely at the whim of the ruling Roman elite.... Read more ›
The Horrible Histories idea can be found in the fate and resource cards, when Nero can summarily kill a gladiator, you can be arrested, your food stolen, your opponent has to go into the arena to fight a tiger, or you can get help to fight.
The game is complicated. It's recommended at 8+, but I would suggest that the 8 to 9 year olds should, ideally, be familiar with board games, and understand a little bit about the Romans - understanding what a gladiator is, for example. That said, once you get into it, it is a good game. It takes a couple of go's to get the hang of the game. Our first version featured a whole different game play which my kids simply made up to fit the board! It was quite a fun version though - and the board does lend itself to making up your own games, if you enjoy doing that.
The game is educational. The art work on the Board game is lovely - and great for those with an eye for finding the details. As a whole, the game does give an impression of some aspects of life for a gladiator, when your fate is entirely at the whim of the ruling Roman elite.... Read more ›
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By stuart
Durability:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
this is definitely not your average game. A few minutes spent reading instructions will be needed and a couple of trial runs but now we have got it we are up and running and everyone enoying it. Bought for 8 yr old who loves the HH books and tv series and has been perfect for him.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Alexandra
Durability:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My son was over the moon with this board game that he received for Christmas. You can play as a warrior or Gladiator and as long as you set aside the time to play it properly it is very enjoyable!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Ally
Durability:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
i am surprised reading the other reviews. My 7 year old really enjoyed playing this, as did I. It wasn't overly complicated and was good fun. Each to their own I suppose.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By sarah jayne
Durability:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
HORRIBLE HISTORIES THE ROTTEN ROMANS IS A REALY GOOD GAME AND A GREAT WAY TO SPEND A RAINY DAY BY PLAYING THIS GREAT GAME CHILDREN CAN LEARN ABOUT THE ROMANS WITHOUT KNOWING THEY ARE BECAUSE IT`S FUN. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE IT HAS WORKED FOR ME BY LEARNING AND HAVING FUN AT THE SAME TIME I HAVE LEARNT ALOT MORE THEN WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL AND THAT IS WHY THIS IS SUCH A GRATE GAME IT IS HISTORY MADE FUN.
Amazon Verified Purchase
Actually I thought I had ordered something for his Play Station. Somehow I did not realize it was a game. It was with great relief when I found that he has been enjoying the game very much. Grandmothers need help some time when ordering for the younger generation......especially when they are an ocean away !
By Nix
Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought for christmas for my 8yr old son who loves watching the horrible history programe. Im sure we will be playing it christmas day.
By A. Reader
Durability:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
1.0 out of 5 stars
For the record we love Horrible Histories in this house, though if this game was your first experience of HH you'd be put off.
The aim is to get your gladiator/slave out of the colliseum in Rome and home to one of 5 lands (Persia, Gaul, Africa, Britannia & Germania). Some are further from the colliseum than others so for example nobody chooses to go home to Africa in our house, we all go to Persia or Gaul! The board is badly designed with the spaces being circular and very faint against the HH illustration, and the pieces oval (!). There is no set path around the board, you can pretty much go anywhere so long as the circles touch which leads to arguments with 7 yr olds and their daddies. There are a few item spaces to pick up specific things like rope, key, water etc. there are also corresponding spaces to lose those items, but precious few opportunities to use the items you have collected.
This COULD have been a really good game but it is so easy to play without having to take/use any of the cards and to avoid dangers that it's almost pointless. No need to do anything other than roll the dice and move.
(Not wanting to ditch this game tho i added walls that players can't cross, walls they can cross only if they have certain items, more chances to pick up Fate or Resource cards, multiple areas to start from, and allocation of home country to reach by throwing a dice (all done with coloured stickers lol). Made it more interesting).
So unless you are going to modify this game i certainly don't recommend wasting the money.
Terry Deary we are disappointed!
The aim is to get your gladiator/slave out of the colliseum in Rome and home to one of 5 lands (Persia, Gaul, Africa, Britannia & Germania). Some are further from the colliseum than others so for example nobody chooses to go home to Africa in our house, we all go to Persia or Gaul! The board is badly designed with the spaces being circular and very faint against the HH illustration, and the pieces oval (!). There is no set path around the board, you can pretty much go anywhere so long as the circles touch which leads to arguments with 7 yr olds and their daddies. There are a few item spaces to pick up specific things like rope, key, water etc. there are also corresponding spaces to lose those items, but precious few opportunities to use the items you have collected.
This COULD have been a really good game but it is so easy to play without having to take/use any of the cards and to avoid dangers that it's almost pointless. No need to do anything other than roll the dice and move.
(Not wanting to ditch this game tho i added walls that players can't cross, walls they can cross only if they have certain items, more chances to pick up Fate or Resource cards, multiple areas to start from, and allocation of home country to reach by throwing a dice (all done with coloured stickers lol). Made it more interesting).
So unless you are going to modify this game i certainly don't recommend wasting the money.
Terry Deary we are disappointed!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars
Am I being thick?!
Is it me or is this game almost impossible to play?! I couldn't even see what circles we had to start on and where we moved to and the instructions mention nothing. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Niklily77
2.0 out of 5 stars
Complicated but potential
This game certainly has potential, it's good fun once you have got the hang of it, worth perservering with it. Read more
Published 14 months ago by G. R. Eastwell
5.0 out of 5 stars
Horribly Hilarious
Great fun - this is brilliant to play over Christmas or at family gatherings, I play it with my young nephews and enjoy it just as much as they do. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. D. J. Cobain
1.0 out of 5 stars
Good concept but a very badly designed, ill thought out game.
We got this game for our son for Christmas on the basis that he loves the Horrible Histories programes on CBBC, and the whole family enjoy playing board games together. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Parklife
1.0 out of 5 stars
What a strange game
The concept of this game is quite a good one. Gladiators collect 'equipment' from places in Rome which they then use in their escape to surrounding countries. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Mysay
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